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What about the rhetorical level at which the campaign has been conducted? We are a long way, certainly, from the intellectual intricacies of the Lincoln- Douglas debates (which, incidentally, occurred in a senatorial, not a presidential, election). But even the crudest gestures, if unpacked with care, will be found to contain some serious intent...
...Khomeini government away from hostility to the U.S., and thus frustrate Soviet designs on a vital region. That justification was not much more than a rationalization for North, who initially horned in on the affair as the NSC's antiterrorist expert. His electronic messages to Poindexter spoke in the crudest terms of so many weapons to be traded for each American hostage freed. But the operation sadly - illustrates how the obsession with covert operations became self-perpetuating. Because the arms sales aroused bitter opposition even within the Government, and would never have been approved by Congress, they...
...quite another matter to promote exclusivity for exclusivity's sake. To do so is to elevate some at the expense of others, all the while pandering to society's crudest ideas of success and failure...
Paradoxically, while the would-be carvers were being drilled in meticulous attention to detail, the true hunters in Easton were out in their blinds behind the crudest decoys in all the land. These were goose decoys, fashioned from old tires, plywood goose heads affixed to the rubber in various attitudes of feeding. They were not proving very effective, but this was not the fault of the decoy, nor of the hunter. There had been a full moon, and the birds had fed at night. Now, in the day, they had no interest in food...
Earlier this year, the findings of a survey on sexual harassment revealed alarmingly high percentages of sexual coercion of women by male professors and graduate students, and well as undergraduate peer harassment. The attitudes expressed in the Pi Eta newsletter are an illustration of the crudest end of this. When women are regarded by men not as autonomous individuals but as sexual objects, they are also viewed as either willing or deserving recipients of insults, manipulation, and forced sexual relations This is at the heart of both the professor accosting his students and the final club circular cajoling its members...